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Faust is a film of genre Drama directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau released in USA on 5 december 1926 with Gösta Ekman, Sr.
Faust (1926)
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage
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Add to a movie listFaust (German: Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) is a 1926 silent film produced by UFA, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt. Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic version. UFA wanted Ludwig Berger to direct Faust, as Murnau was engaged with Variety; Murnau pressured the producer and, backed by Jannings, eventually persuaded Erich Pommer to let him direct the film.
Faust was Murnau's last German film, and directly afterward he moved to the US under contract to William Fox to direct Sunrise (1927); when the film premiered in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin, Murnau was already shooting in Hollywood.
Synopsis
The demon Mephisto has a bet with an Archangel that he can corrupt a righteous man's soul and destroy in him what is divine. If he succeeds, the Devil will win dominion over earth.Actors
Gösta Ekman, Sr.
(Faust)
Emil Jannings
(Mephisto)
Camilla Horn
(Gretchen Marguerite)
William Dieterle
(Valentin)
Frida Richard
(Gretchens's Mother)
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